Interpolation is its own can of worms, but if you just want to be able to encode absolutely anything without escape characters, you just need two delimiters:

Interpolation is its own can of worms, but if you just want to be able to encode absolutely anything without escape characters, you just need two delimiters: "*n [stringA] "*n "*n [stringB] '*n '*n [stringC] "*n '*n [stringD] '*n Each string may contain runs of contiguous single or double quotes of length less than n, and furthermore: stringA may start and/or end with a single quote stringB may start with a single quote and/or end with a double quote stringC may start with a double quote and/or end with a single quote stringD may start and/or end with a double quote